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I'm wondering if there's any platform here to solicit people who are familiar with testdisk for some of their time for a fee that I'm willing to pay?

I have a simple job, and I'm a fairly competent software engineer, but I just don't have much experience with filesystems internals.

I accidentally pressed "erase" on my mac for an entire disk to be formatted as FAT32, but I unplugged everything really quickly (a few seconds, so most of the data should be intact, I hope).

I just want to somehow be able to rebuild the partition table. I know what it should look like, but I don't know how to do it with testdisk. Seems like this is the kind of stuff where if you don't get everything right, then nothing will work..

I've tried doing it a bit manually, but it hasn't worked so far. Haven't been able to mount my HFS+ partition. So, looking for help..

hello,
I do know a website that accepts donations and is able to fix most problems.
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